Designers and engineers work better together if they speak each other’s language. This project for one of our design consultancy’s clients, NTS Group is an example of a productive relationship. For the exterior of this metal spectral analyser for Spectro we worked together to balance manufacturing requirements and form. The conceptual basis was technology based as can […]

We have been working for Dinotec for a number of years on different projects ranging from designing components for their pool filtration systems to launching a new brand at the Frankfurter Messe. This is an animation created to show a modular, smart spa environment for hotels. We designed the storyboard and created the script. The […]

Indoor Eden, aka the Viriditas Greenhouse, is based on the book The Secret Life of Plants, which describes how plants respond to factors such as attention and music. When conditions are optimal, plants produce more and better fruit. It is also shown that humans experience less stress when connected with nature. From this came the idea […]

After a three month creative residency we have decided to stay and open up a satellite office at the High Tech Campus. We are running our Online Masterclass Conceptual Thinking to train the individual creative brain bringing together companies like ASML and TNO in a classroom based training process. We will also look to expand our […]

Anouk designed this drinking water carafe in 2002. It vitalises tap water by creating a vortex to return the water to its natural state after being stagnant in angular water pipes in buildings. Water needs to flow, the vortex is the same a s you find naturally appearing and fading in streams and rivers. […]

The Science Gallery in collaboration with Museum Modern Art New York presents Design&Violence, an exhibition showing our Do hit chair. Opens 14th of October. If you missed the exhibit at Marta Herford earlier this year, this is your chance to see it in Dublin. Or visit Gallery Tutti Cortex in Rotterdam where the chair is being exhibited that was […]

Conceptual Thinking is the individual skill in creating multiple ideas fast, cutting through complexity and developing them into powerful Concepts. Conceptual Thinking fuels and directs inspiration by allowing individuals to create and nurture ideas. This type of ‘creative’ thinking is seen as a gift or talent- it is not, it is a skill. How does it work? By combining the structure of […]

What do you do if you have 5 minutes to leave a memorable impression on a world leader or a CEO of a multinational? Two months ago we were asked to design the concept for a meeting between two prime ministers- Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany and Mark Rutten, the Dutch Prime Minister. So how? You do […]

Anouk was brought in on the project for a water treatment plant in Bladel Hapert for Waterschap de Dommel to do a thorough analysis of the sites recreation and education. Routing through the natural landscape surrounding the site with ecological subsequent treatment systems, educating visitors and school children on this new way of cleaning waste water. […]

We are on a mission. To introduce the iconic camping flooding chair into the office of the 21st century. People move around and what better way to have that hort meeting with a colleague than in a steel tubular chair with that typical fabric seat that is held in place by words and springs. […]

We engineered and built a first working prototype for folding conference table for Oudenteak, blending the style of slanted rond legs with a folding mechanism suited for the storage logistics of hotel conferences.

vanderPolloffice is a multidisciplinary design studio run by Anouk and Marijn van der Poll with over 25 years of combined experience in design consulting. Anouk works for clients in the water sector whereas Marijn is currently working foremost in the field of Conceptual Thinking, training businesses in result driven creative analysis. Their two offices are both based in Eindhoven, one in the creative hotspot Strip -S and the other on the smartest square kilometre, the High Tech Campus.